Given how indelible many people’s memories of childhood camp can be, it’s surprising that so little about that universal rite of passage has shown up on television.

’Universal rite of passage,’ --well, for some, maybe, but believe it or not there are millions of Americans who never rowed across the fucking lake or told ghost stories around the fucking campfire, not that I’m bitter, I preferred staying home watching soap operas on the couch, reading Marvel Comic books and drinking 16 oz. Royal Crown colas as insects screamed in the grass and the future loomed like a long runway.

The fictional Little Otter Family Camp is a typical, all-American lakeside camp, with hazing, brutal capture-the-flag competitions and young, sex-obsessed counselors, but also a humane guiding ethos.

No, there was no humane guiding ethos for the likes of me during those campless summers, just the sink-or-swim eat-or-be-eaten law of the jungle that made us breed of suburban cat particularly mean and wary once we got to punkass places like Bethesda or Timonium.

I was even more taken aback by Stanley’s discussion of a drive-by joke in the script invoking Christopher Hitchens. ’Mack’--played by Rachel Griffiths, who’s always made me nervous--’has a resteless married friend who one night reminisces about her wild youth and reports that she had a one-night stand with the writer Christopher Hitchens. She airily describes him as a ‘total blowhard’ who was nonetheless great in bed. (‘The guy had a tongue like Gene Simmons.’) Hitchens, who died in 2011, would no doubt been amused, but his is a jarring name for a network series to drop posthumously and so salaciously.’

I’ll say. You spend decades writing about politics and literature, lead a tempestuous life, face your illness and death bravely and eloquently, and this is your pop culture reward: reduced to a lewd, dumb punchline. Camp might want to work on improving its own "humane guiding ethos.’

There ought to be a term for boycotting something you never intended to watch in in the first place, because it would do quite nicely here.